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You have limited options. I suggest using the internet for reference material only (no HN or Slashdot allowed). Your boss is not going to change. What is your job worth to you now?…

... Perhaps what you mean is you hate the escape characters used to switch between html and sql. Perhaps what you mean is you hate the MVC separation. I do not agree with swix that…

I am in a very similar situation: Mortgage, kids, wife and in an almost failing startup. First, you need to know how much risk the wife can stomach. Second, the money does not matt…

Yes. 1) To practice my writing skill - I may be awesome at programming, but my prose comes out too slow. I hope practice will allow me to write faster, yet still coherently. 2) The…

Most items on this list are surprising effective when done by the media.

I do not know how you can call yourself a geek if you can tolerate boredom 3 or 4 times before even considering making a program instead. For some reason, you (and others here) ass…

May I suggest that you are not a geek: No Star Trek? Blasphemer!

IMHO, it is hard to find a domain that is challenging, useful, and small. But a couple of examples listed above are pretty good: 1) Write your own web server, blog software, etc: B…

I dislike the free-form overlapping windows, but tiling is still worse. Tiling could be better if windows had a 'reduced' mode: which needs minimal screen area to show status. Some…

Should have compared cubes instead of squares

From the article: "This should say to employers that insisting people work long hours is actually not good for your business" Wrong! As a business, you should overwork you employee…

I am in Ontario. My advice is: 1) Stay in real cash (not equivelents) until this market turmoil is done. 2) Figure out what you want your next "career" to be. You are in a position…

Sorry, I am not convinced. Java's exception handling may be slower, but exceptions should be rare: In the few cases exceptions are not rare, return an object instead. The issue of …

"Europeans would look at our education system and be appalled by two things. One was that we were educating so many, which they considered to be highly wasteful. The other was that…

...it's worse!

That was an interesting meme. I have long valued waking up early, and I promote going to bed hungry. Looks like the two principals are related.

I do the same. I have a script that will update my hosts file at the start and end of each day. All my bookmarked sites are blocked during the work day.